Sarah Grochala

The Theatre of Rupert Goold (eBook, ePUB)

Radical Approaches to Adaptation and New Writing

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Since the late 1990s, Rupert Goold has garnered a reputation as one of the UK's most exciting and provocative theatre directors. His exhilarating, risk-taking productions of both classic texts and new plays have travelled from regional stages to the National Theatre, the West End, Broadway and beyond. Through his artistic directorship of Northampton's Royal & Derngate, the touring theatre company Headlong and London's Almeida Theatre, he has radically transformed, not only the companies themselves, but the landscape of British theatre. This is the first book to survey and analyse the full range of Goold's work to date and is a vital resource for students, scholars and fans of his work. Based on extensive interviews with Goold and some of the playwrights, designers, actors and other creatives who have collaborated with him, The Theatre of Rupert Goold provides an account of Goold's work from the beginnings of his career to the present day, offering a backstage view of the creative processes behind some of his most successful productions including: Paradise Lost, Faustus (Royal & Derngate); Macbeth (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet (RSC); Six Characters in Search of an Author, ENRON (Headlong); Time and the Conways (National Theatre); Charles III and Ink (Almeida). The Theatre of Rupert Goold is an accessible and fascinating guide to Goold's approach to making theatre, an approach that asks provocative questions of the modern world in the most theatrical ways imaginable.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350090743
• Artikelnr.: 60476249

Autorenporträt

Sarah studied English at St John's College Oxford and Playwriting Studies at Birmingham University. She is the current holder of Off West End.com's Adopt a Playwright Award. Her play S-27 (Finborough 2009; Griffin Theatre Sydney 2010) won the 2007 Amnesty International Protect the Human Playwriting Competition, and was also shortlisted for the Kings Cross Award and the Leah Ryan Award for Emerging Women Writers. Other plays include Waiting for Romeo (Pleasance Islington 2009; Edinburgh Festival 2006) and Open Ground (Theatro Technis 2005). She has also written several short plays for The Miniaturists and for Theatre 503.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Rupert Goold
Introduction
Part One: The Work
1 - Beginnings
2 - Northampton
3 - Headlong and the RSC: Early Years
4 - Headlong and the RSC: Later Years
5 - Almeida
Part Two: Approaches to Practice
6 - Directing
7 - Shakespeare
8 - Adaptation
9 - New Writing
10 - Opera
11 - Artistic Direction
12 - Talent Development
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index